359 pages; This coming-of-age literary work of speculative fiction by the author of X, Y is the story of Payne, a Grotesque, or Tesque, whose ill-formed body is offset by his rare, highly prized power to cure others of illness and injury. Humans shun the mutant Tesques even while they exploit their healing abilities. Treated little better than a slave, Payne desperately craves a connection with others, a goal that seems less possible after a devastating mishap involving another of his kind.View More...

reading copy - heavy spine and edge wear, cover creasing, several bookstore stamps. Giant blonde creatures, they were as curvaceous as the bodies of their dwarf men were shriveled. Captain Christian was the only human who's ever laid eyes on them. And now he wished he hadn't. They were beauty without heart. Cruel, cold. And he was their prisoner.View More...

spine creasing, edge wear; Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth--but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to return to Earth, staying behind in the strange ship alone where he fell into suspended animation. Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries. Jo's dogged determination has forced the recovery of t...View More...

spine creasing, edge wear; Moonbase--the first permanent human settlement on the Moon--was the dream of ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger. Although he did not live to see his vision become a reality, his widow, the powerful corporate head Joanna Masterson Stavenger, ensured that Moonbase would become a bustling center for manufacturing and technological development vital to all humankind--on Earth and on the Moon. Here is the story of Moonbase: the power, passion, and personalities that drive the project to fruition--and threaten to destroy it.View More...

spine creasing, edge wear; When billionaire Dan Randolph moves a mineral-rich asteroid into orbit around the Earth, the new despotic masters of the solar system commandeer it and slaughter his unarmed workers in cold blood. Suddenly, America is exposed to danger and the entrepreneur must use his skill and cunning to strike hard at his foes.View More...

294 pages; spine crease, some edge wear, pages a bit yellowed; The second book of "The Kinsman Saga", which also includes "Kinsman" and "Colony". The story of a man driven to create the future, and forced to save two worlds from the death throes of the millennium.View More...

Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money and women--though not necessarily in that order. He's a hero without peer...or scruples; a man with the ego and stature of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P.T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a newly pubescent teenage boy. He's Sam Gunn, the finest astronaut NASA ever trained...and dumped. But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice! (Though he does dearly love women and money.) Whether he's suing the Pope, coming to the aid of voluptuous twin sisters in the ''virtual sex'' trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplane...View More...

edge wear, library stamp on bottom page ends; The discovery of huge alien machines operating on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is just the beginning of a nightmare for Dr Sidney Lee. He is convinced that, without the intervention of his crew, these machines will destroy mankind. The author is a six-times winner of the Hugo Award.View More...

spine creasing, edge wear; Chet Kinsman abandoned his family's Quaker roots to become one of America's hottest Air Force astronauts. But when he is barred from space by murder, Kinsman embarks on a project to secure humanity's future--a desperate gambit that will end in victory--or his execution for treason!View More...

light edge wear; In the thrilling sequel to "Mars", Commander Jamie Waterman is on his second mission to the red planet to solve the mystery of an improbable structure on the surface that only an intelligent being could have built. Along the way, Jamie Waterman must contend with deadly sabotage, a destructive rivalry, and a disturbing new emotional attraction.View More...

light edge wear; What awaits our children and grandchildren half a century hence? Will their America be a paradise of plenty - a crime and pollution-free high-tech Eden? Or will the greed and shortsighted excess of our present time beget misery and despair - dooming future generations for centuries to come? These are the questions posed to four of our most respected and prescient speculators on the future-possible - the award-winning giants in the field of science fiction: Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield. Basing his projections on current technological, scientif...View More...

148 pages; light edge wear; ACE 06061; All signs pointed to the fact that no human could come back alive from Barnard's Star. Something elusive, beyond comprehension, existed out there; something that was a perpetual bait, a perpetual trap. But Arch Comyn knew he had to join tht second fated mission. For somehwere beyond the veil of the Transuranae lay the answer to the question that was more important than life to him.View More...

spine creasing, edge wear; A classic novel in the bestselling Darkover series. For three quarters of a century, Darkover has resisted the Terran Empire's efforts in colonization and industrialization. But the leader of Planetary Investments Unlimited (known as Worldwreckers, Inc.) has decided to take on this assignment herself . . . for long ago, she had called Darkover home.View More...

237 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; DAW Collector's #686; A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovered this sorcerer's Secret could steal away the Blue Star power, leaving the Adept defenseless, fit only for death.And Lythande's secret was perhaps the most dangerous of all, setting the mage apart from all humanity, forcing Lythande to war against spell beast, sorcerer, thief, swordsman, and the magic of the gods themselves.?As an added bonus, Lythande includes a special...View More...

374 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; Truth Blackburn?s father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night, something went badly wrong during Thorne?s most powerful ceremony. When the chaos had passed, Thorne had vanished, and Katherine, mother of Thorne?s young daughter Truth, was dead. Thirty years later, Truth Blackburn searches for smaller truths: what really happened that night at Shadow's Gate? Did Thorne truly have magical powers?...View More...

253 pages; spine and hinge creasing, edge wear; Two novels in one volume: In Falcons of Narabedla: "Two men in one body - two epochs in conflict. . . He woke up to find himself in weird surroundings, guarded by two strangers, one an old, old man, the other a slim sexless figure hidden completely under long blue veils. These two called him Adric, a name he instinctively responded to, even though he knew he was Mike Kenscott, radio engineer in a government laboratory. His rich crimson clothing was unfamiliar and he was shocked by the landscape he saw through the window - mountains bathed in ...View More...

edge wear to boards, corners bumped; binding split; From the bestselling author of The Mists of Avalon and The Forest House comes a novel of self-discovery for the modern age. Truth Blackburn, whose parents were killed in the 1960s, during a ceremony held by occultists determined to return the old gods to Earth, travels back to her family's estate--and finds it haunted by the spirit of her father.View More...

hinge crease, light edge wear; Across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication.View More...